structure of url

Question

I have seen on many sites, the structure of the URL is of the form

http://tabsize.com /user/login

OR

http://tabsize.com /user/register

http://tabsize.com /user/account

From user->login OR user->register

So how to you maintain this sort of URL structure?

I am currently using hard-coded type URLs like,

www.example.com/login.php

www.example.com/register.php

I dont think my way is professional, I also want to be able to create the same structure as given in the example above.

How do you achieve it?

Answer 1

The easiest way would be using folders and index files:

http://tabsize.com/user/register
->http://tabsize.com/user/register/index.php

http://tabsize.com/user/account
->http://tabsize.com/user/account/index.php

Answer 2

You need to make all requests go via your index.php file. That way you can perform a lookup on the path and choose a function to return the response.

eg.

index.php?uri=/user/login/

then inside you index.php file perform the lookup

<?php

$uri = $_GET["uri"];

if ($uri == "/user/login/") {
  print "login page";
}
else if ($uri == "/something/else/") {
  print "some other page";
}

This way isn't maintainable and I wouldn't recommend it but you get the idea.

Then in your .htaccess you want to remove index.php?uri=

RewriteRule .* index.php?uri=$0 [PT,QSA,L]

Now URLs like this will work http://example.com/user/login/

I would recommend looking into PHP frameworks which already have solutions to this. CodeIgniter and Kohana are good.

Or Django if you know Python.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I think the main reason that you see this structure on many sites is because they use a framework .

And most of the time, user corresponds to a module, and login to an action. If your application is big enough, you should consider using a framework .